Chapter 83 - accident
“what did you say?”
After the afternoon training session, the voice of the coach Ronald Coman was heard from the first team head coach’s office.
At this time, the core of the Ajax Athletic Department was gathered in the office.
Headed by technical director Van Gaal, two youth assistants Luther Carroll and Patrick Radru, and chief scout Tony Browns Slots, all gathered at Ronald Cole In Mann ’s office.
“You promised Trabelsi, as long as you renew the contract, you will let him leave the team six months later?”
Van Gaal nodded affirmatively, “Yes, this clause will also be included in the renewal contract.”
“I don’t understand.” Ronald Coman shook his head.
“No, you understand, it’s just that you are not willing to admit it.” Van Gaal said very positively.
Everyone was a little silent.
“The situation in European football is no longer the same as it was in the past, and Ajax is not the same as it was. But many of us are still immersed in the glory and glory of the past. How many wrong decisions were made? How many benefits should we lose that should not be lost? “
Everyone was speechless.
Isn’t this right?
“Not only Trabelsi, Ibrahimovic, Van der Vaart, Escud … any player of the club, as long as he wants to leave, we can all get the right offer. Let him leave. “
Van Gaal said very firmly, but this remark caused a huge shock to everyone present.
This means that Ajax will undergo a huge change from top to bottom, and even the management system of the entire club will also make changes, which will affect everyone in the club.
From now on, Ajax will completely embark on the business model of training players for the four major leagues. In this club, there will be no such thing as non-sales, no matter who it is.
Ronald Coleman was surprised and somewhat unacceptable, “Louis, if you do this, where does the team’s cohesion come from? How can the team ensure its competitiveness in the league and the Champions League?”
“It’s very simple. If you sell one, you will bring in one. South America, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Africa, and even Asia. There are young talents with great potential everywhere. Our Ajax is not good at training young players. ?”
“We buy at a low price, after training, sell at a high price to earn the middle difference, and the players naturally hope to use the platform of Ajax to achieve self-improvement and use the team as a pedal to land in the four major leagues. It ’s like Escud, so we do n’t need to worry about the team ’s competitiveness at all. “
Van Gaal’s statement was a huge impact on Ajax’s past business philosophy, which shocked everyone present.
In the past, Ajax also sold people, but most of the time they only sold people when they were forced to do so.
Just like Trabelsi, if it is a savvy team, it should have already hurried in the summer, grabbed a large transfer fee from the big teams of the four major leagues, and then introduced a young player worth training. This can avoid the current dilemma faced by the team.
But Ajax did not do this, but instead wanted to retain Trabelsi. The result was good. Not long after the season started, Trabelsi was clamoring to leave the team. With only half a year left on the contract, The team is also very unfavorable.
It is even conceivable that if there is no automatic renewal clause left when signing the contract that year, Ajax will suffer a big loss in the transfer of Trabelsi, or at a very low price. Selling in the winter break, or simply dragging him into the summer to let him move freely, no matter which kind, Ajax will suffer huge losses.
This is true of Trabelsi, as are van der Vaart, Ibrahimovic and Sneijder.
Only by changing the club’s business model, Ajax can avoid this happening again and again.
But I have to say that Van Gaal’s ideas are too radical.
“I believe that Trabelsi should give an answer within a few days, and then I will talk to Van der Vaart and Ibrahimović, hoping to stabilize as soon as possible before the last expedition to Bruges Team, reunite players. “
First, inside and then outside, as the head coach, Van Gaal is deeply committed to this set of management techniques.
“I have made a military order with Michael. If I cannot qualify for the Champions League group stage this season, I will blame and resign.”
Everyone in the room was shocked after hearing it, because they all knew what it meant.
There is no doubt that Van Gaal is a world-famous coach, but since he led Ajax to glory in the 1990s, he has not made any achievements. He entered Barcelona twice without success and coached the Netherlands. The national team is even unable to enter the World Cup, these have made Van Gaal has long been controversial.
Anyone familiar with European football knows that whether it is Barcelona or the Netherlands, it should not be blamed on Van Gaal, but fans and the media can ignore these, they only speculate and criticize.
If Van Gaal now leaves the position of Ajax’s technical director again, his coaching career may be bleak, and he may even slip from the position of a top European coach. It will be difficult to have a giant in the future. The team invited him.
It can be said that Van Gaal’s move is simply a bet on his career.
Not to mention others, even Ronald Coleman, who has always been very wrong with Van Gaal, is tempted at the moment.
This is not just a matter of professional ethics, but more important is Van Gaal’s affection for Ajax.
Coleman also knew that Van Gaal took the initiative to back this black pot, and his head coach would be preserved.
Thinking of this, he was somewhat unpleasant.
But at this time, Van Gaal suddenly turned to look at Ronald Coman.
“Ronald, this game against Bruges, I hope you can promise me one thing.”
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In the next two days, Ajax continued to prepare for the 14th round of the Netherlands.
Ronald Coman announced the team’s 18-man roster a day in advance. Fairmaren was among them, but Yang Yang, who had just been drafted from the second team, failed to enter the list, which made Yang Yang somewhat disappointed.
On the day of the game, Ronald Coleman did not rank Fairmaren into the lineup. He still excluded the partner of Heitinga and Escud. The right side was still John O’Brien, and Maxwell on the left side. The rotation was replaced by Czech defender Zdenek Grigra.
Although the 23-year-old Czech international is a right-footer, he just joined the team this summer, but has been pressed by Trabelsi before, plus Grigra has a role as a million dollar, able to compete in the middle On the left, the position is always swinging. On the contrary, the right side that I was the best at is rarely able to kick.
The change of the back line also affected the stability of the court. Only fifteen minutes into the opening, the home team Roda Jc sent an exquisite assist from the forward Kone to help the team get a one-to-zero lead.
After that, Ajax couldn’t attack for a long time. The trident composed of Scola, Songk and Soyetals always struggled to break Roda’s defense line. Grigra was injured in the 43rd minute. , Coman had to use De Jong to come off the bench.
After changing sides in the second half and then fighting, after the adjustment of Coman’s midfield, Ajax launched a round of attack. With his personal ability, Van der Vaart assisted Scola with a goal and scored in the 49th minute, while Sawyer Talls also overtook the score in the 62nd minute, and Ajax finally reversed Roda jc with a two-to-one score.
The thrilling battle allowed Ajax to retain the position of the league leader, four points ahead of second place Eindhoven, and Feyenoord ahead of third place was as much as ten, in the league championship battle Has a favorable advantage.
But in the Serie A goal list, Kežman topped the list with 15 goals in 14 rounds, and Ajax top scorer Ibrahimovic scored only eight goals and tied the scorer Ranked second.
The outside media and fans did not pay much attention to the Ajax win over Roda Jc. All the attention fell on the final round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, challenging the crucial battle of Bruges, Belgium.
This game will determine whether Ajax will qualify for the UEFA Champions League knockout, as well as the departure of Ajax technical director Van Gaal, but the latter is not known.
The good news is that the second day after playing Roda Jc, Ajax officially announced that it has renewed the contract with the team’s main right guard Trabelsi. The two parties decided to perform the last contract and renew the contract. year.
This is undoubtedly a relief for Trabelsi, who has been stuck in the quagmire of the transfer for the past few months. When facing the media reporter at the signing ceremony, he expressed his emotions It has basically recovered and hopes to return to the field as soon as possible.
The head coach Ronald Coleman also said that Trabelsi’s physical condition has recovered very well, and the team doctor has also opened the green light for his appearance. He will appear in the midweek game against Bruges, Belgium Among them, Coman also said that Trabelsi’s return will enhance the team’s ability to fight away.
At the critical moment, the general’s return, the morale of Ajax was up and down.
Especially in the past period of time, technical director Van Gaal has successively negotiated with team generals such as Van der Vaart and Ibrahimović, and everyone basically reached a consensus, that is, at the moment of the survival of the team, all Everything must be left behind, beat Bruges on the road first, and then talk about others.
Van Gaal also promised on behalf of the club that until next summer, as long as the opposing team is willing to open the right price, Ajax will seriously consider the transfer of players, no matter who it is.
This statement also boosted the morale of the players. Everyone began to realize that they needed to work harder to win a brighter future for themselves.
The internal contradictions of the team were alleviated, everyone agreed, and the guns were shared with each other. The haze that had been suppressed over Detok Most gradually faded, and everyone was relieved.
But the day before going to Belgium, Ronald Coman announced the team’s 18-man roster in accordance with the usual practice.
As a result, everyone was surprised that Yang Yang, who had just been transferred from the second team for less than a week, was in the ranks.